Material Planner
Role Overview
Manage material and supply planning for trading items, focusing on air shipments and short-lead-time products.
Translate demand, inventory, incoming shipments, and lead-time requirements into accurate buying requirements.
Work across Procurement, Sales, Warehouse, Logistics, and Smartdata to improve availability, forecasting, and inventory outcomes.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Manage material and supply planning for trading items, focusing on air shipments and short-lead-time products.
Translate demand, inventory, incoming shipments, and lead-time requirements into accurate buying requirements.
Work across Procurement, Sales, Warehouse, Logistics, and Smartdata to improve availability, forecasting, and inventory outcomes.
Responsibilities and performance outcomes
- Maintain product availability and service levels while minimising shortages caused by planning gaps.
- Maintain inventory within agreed stock-cover norms while balancing availability, shelf life, and inventory risk.
- Plan timely, accurate buying requirements based on demand, stock, incoming supply, lead times, and target stock cover.
- Identify supply risks and coordinate alternate supply and mitigation plans.
- Optimise stock allocation across sales channels based on demand, customer priorities, available inventory, and supply constraints.
- Reduce slow-moving, excess, and ageing inventory through planning and corrective action.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Commerce, Business, or a related field.
- 2–5 years in Material Planning, Supply Planning, Demand Planning, or a related planning role.
- Experience in FMCG, food manufacturing, fresh, or perishable products is preferred.
- Strong material planning and MRP knowledge; understanding of inventory, DOH, safety stock, and service levels.
- Strong Microsoft Excel and data-analysis skills; Power Query experience is highly desirable.
- Strong planning, prioritisation, organisation, attention to detail, communication, and cross-functional coordination.
- Ability to work with Procurement, Sales, CPD, Warehouse, and Logistics teams and proactively resolve supply risks and planning exceptions.
Key skills
- Material Planning; MRP; Inventory Planning; Supply Planning; Demand Planning; FMCG; Fresh and Perishable Products; DOH; Safety Stock; Procurement Planning; Supply Risk Management; Excel; Power Query; Forecasting; Data Analysis.
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